MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s ruling party on Saturday named its applicants for 8 governorships and the mayorship of Mexico City.
But after ruling out the preferred candidate for the capital, questions remain about whether or not the party can keep away from desertions.
For the instant, former capital police leader Omar García Harfuch — who received polls at the town race but used to be knocked out by means of a gender quota requiring a feminine candidate — instructed native media he had no plans to depart the party.
“We will always respect the gender quotas and the decision of our party,” García Harfuch wrote in his social media accounts.
The Morena party, based by means of charismatic President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is made up of disparate parts united simplest by means of López Obrador’s oversized character, but he can’t be reelected and leaves place of work in ten months.
Morena already introduced its nominee for the presidential race: former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who’s noticed as an unquestioningly devoted follower of the president.
García Harfuch received popularity as a difficult and efficient Mexico City police leader after he survived a 2020 ambush attack by means of the Jalisco drug cartel on a side road within the capital. The brazen assault left him with 3 bullet wounds, whilst his two bodyguards and a bystander had been killed.
Because the capital is so huge — at over 9 million population — the post is regarded as a governorship, and has been a launching pad for the presidency prior to now.
But the nomination went to Clara Brugada, the borough president of a coarse stretch of low-income neighborhoods at the town’s east facet. Brugada used to be most popular by means of the leftist wing of Morena as a result of she constructed “utopias” — sports activities and cultural complexes — in neighborhoods the place previous administrations targeted at the bare-bones problems with drainage, policing and chaotic transportation networks.
A most sensible contender for the Morena presidential nomination, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, is anticipated to announce his subsequent transfer Monday.
One passed-over senator who had was hoping to run for governor of the central state of Puebla mentioned he would seek the advice of his fans ahead of pronouncing his plans.
And a number one candidate who didn’t protected her party’s nomination left Morena in Morelos state, south of Mexico City. Sen. Lucía Meza introduced this week that she’s going to run at the opposition price ticket for governor.
Her departure illustrates the issue Morena faces in uniting its disparate forces: Meza claims present Morelos Gov. Cuauhtémoc Blanco, a former football superstar and private best friend of López Obrador who used to be recruited from some other party, sabotaged her candidacy. Blanco additionally has been investigated for ties to prison gangs.
“Our state doesn’t matter to Morena, they don’t care if we are governed by a criminal,” Meza wrote Wednesday in her resignation letter.
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